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[ UK /hˈɑːti/ ]
[ US /ˈhɑɹti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. showing warm and heartfelt friendliness
    a hearty welcome
    gave us a cordial reception
  2. providing abundant nourishment
    a hearty meal
    four square meals a day
    ate a substantial breakfast
    good solid food
  3. without reservation
    hearty support
  4. endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
    a hearty glow of health
  5. consuming abundantly and with gusto
    a hearty (or healthy) appetite

How To Use hearty In A Sentence

  • Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's A Winner of the Victoria Cross
  • That demands strong swimming skills and hearty lungs besides.
  • Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.
  • I chose blackstrap molasses because its hearty, slightly bitter flavor gave the gingerbread a dark, heavy richness.
  • Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior. Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
  • It is up to you to decide whether sparkling stop-motion animation, catchy music, and a hearty dose of dry British humor is enough to overcome an uninvolving allegorical plot.
  • He had a hearty appetite, took very little exercise, and spent his days sitting at his office desk and most evenings sitting in front of the fire, listening to the wireless.
  • Anecdotal evidence has long pointed to crofters being a hale and hearty breed - albeit prone to bad backs and the odd grumble.
  • The men ate a hearty breakfast.
  • With the no-doubt unintended effect of suggesting that Wallace's menace and ensuing mayhem might, in hindsight, be laughed-off like a good-ol'-boy joke, "George Wallace: Settin 'the Woods on Fire" takes part of its title, and its misguided musical leitmotif from a wacky, Hank Williams party-hearty song. Film/Television: Lost Highways
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